Comparison of Efficiencies of Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument, Neurothesiometer, and Electromyography for Diagnosis of Diabetic Neuropathy by Turkan Mete, Yusuf Aydin, Mustafa Saka, Halise Cinar Yavuz, Sule Bilen, Yavuz Yalcin, Berna Arli, Dilek Berker, Serdar Guler

“…According to our findings, questionnaires and physical examination often present lower diabetic peripheral neuropathy prevalence. …”
Get full text

Angle and Context Free Grammar Based Precarious Node Detection and Secure Data Transmission in MANETs by Anitha Veerasamy, Srinivasa Rao Madane, K. Sivakumar, Audithan Sivaraman

“…Another mechanism proposed in this paper, Angle and Context Free Grammar (ACFG) based precarious node elimination and secure communication in MANETs, intends to secure data transmission and detect precarious nodes in a MANET at a comparatively lower cost. The Elliptic Curve function is used to isolate a malicious node, thereby incorporating secure data transfer. …”
Get full text

Mussel-inspired thermo-switchable underwater adhesive based on a Janus hydrogel by Hiroya Abe, Daichi Yoshihara, Soichiro Tottori, Matsuhiko Nishizawa

“…This thermoswitchable adhesive (TSA) hydrogel displays both strong adhesion and gentle detachment with an over 1000-fold gap in underwater adhesion strength onto glass, titanium, aluminum, and Teflon substrates when exposed to temperatures above and below the lower critical solution temperature (LCST). The adhesion switch is possibly caused by the change in toughness of the TSA hydrogels with temperature because the Janus hydrogel possesses gradient crosslinked structures. …”
Get full text

A case report of acute promyelocytic leukemia with myeloid sarcoma of the lumbar spine and literature review by Yiwen Du, Kun Yang, Yantao Ling, Ying Zhang, Yuping Gong

“…This report describes a 53-year-old male who presented with low back pain and a movement disorder in his lower limbs. MRI and PET/CT scans of the lumbar spine revealed an intraspinal mass. …”
Get full text

Tyre Volume and Pressure Effects on Impact Attenuation during Mountain Bike Riding by Paul W. Macdermid, Matthew C. Miller, Fiona M. Macdermid, Philip W. Fink

“…Larger tyre sizes and lower tyre inflation pressures significantly P<0.0001 reduced exposure to impacts which could be augmented or negated due to an interaction between tyre size and inflation pressure P<0.0001. …”
Get full text

Calculation of Theoretical and Empirical Nutrient N Critical Loads in the Mixed Conifer Ecosystems of Southern California by Joan Breiner, Benjamin S. Gimeno, Mark Fenn

“…Similarly, the highest theoretical CL for nutrient N calculated using the simple mass balance steady state model (estimates ranging from 1.4–8.8 kg N/ha/year) was approximately two times lower than the empirical observations. Further research is needed to derive the thresholds for indicators associated with the impairment of these mixed conifer forests exposed to chronic N deposition within a Mediterranean climate. …”
Get full text

Research of Design of Spindle Transmission System of Peeling Machine for Large Diameter Stainless Steel Bar by Mei Chao Qu Yinhu Qi Zhixu Cheng Xiaole Liu Xiaoni Zhang Xueshuo He Xuan

“…Finally, 10 nodes with the maximum equivalent stress of three flexible parts in the simulation process are extracted, and the results are lower than the allowable stress of gear material, which can provide theoretical reference for the design and manufacture of the spindle drive system of high-performance peeler in practical application.…”
Get full text

Spina Bifida Occulta with Bilateral Spondylolysis at the Thoracolumbar Junction Presenting Cauda Equina Syndrome by Kentaro Mataki, Masao Koda, Yosuke Shibao, Hiroshi Kumagai, Katsuya Nagashima, Kousei Miura, Hiroshi Noguchi, Toru Funayama, Tetsuya Abe, Masashi Yamazaki

“…A 37-year-old man presented with a gait disorder as a result of bilateral motor weakness of the lower extremities. A plain radiograph showed local kyphosis at L1-2 as a result of severe degenerative change and wedging of the vertebral body at L1. …”
Get full text

Variable Torque Control of Offshore Wind Turbine on Spar Floating Platform Using Advanced RBF Neural Network by Lei Wang, Shan Zuo, Y. D. Song, Zheng Zhou

“…Aiming at the external disturbances and nonlinear uncertain dynamic systems of OFWT because of the proximity to load centers and strong wave coupling, this paper proposes an advanced radial basis function (RBF) neural network approach for torque control of OFWT system at speeds lower than rated wind speed. The robust RBF neural network weight adaptive rules are acquired based on the Lyapunov stability analysis. …”
Get full text

Physiological analysis of cognitive load variations during complex information processing by Allan Armougum, Alexandre Gaston-Bellegarde, Chantal Joie-La Marle, Pascale Piolino

“…With rise in expertise of the investigated train station, participants showed equal or higher cognitive load than participants with lower expertise level, from encoding to recognition phase of the experiment, suggesting an expertise reversal effect. …”
Get full text

Evaluating the validity of self-reported smoking in Mexican adolescents by James F Thrasher, Mauricio Hernandez-Avila, Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, María del Carmen Valladolid-López, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas

“…Parental smoking status moderated the validity of self-report, which had lower sensitivity in adolescents with non-smoking parents (86.7%) than in adolescents with smoking parents (96.6%). …”
Get full text

Multifunctional Reconfigurable Millimeter-Wave Array Antenna by Rawad W. Asfour, Salam K. Khamas, Edward A. Ball

“…Additionally, the proposed array offers simplicity in design and outperforms existing counterparts operating at lower frequencies. A prototype has been fabricated, and measurement results demonstrate close agreement with simulation, validating the efficacy of the proposed design.…”
Get full text

Ozone-Catalytic Treatment of Automotive Exhaust by S.R. Khairulin, D.V. Maksudov, M.A. Kerzhentsev, A.V. Salnikov, Z.R. Ismagilov

“…Thus, the ozone concentration is maximum during a cold start, precisely when the lower temperatures do not allow other reactions than those of oxidation of toxic gases with ozone, and decreases by the time the catalytic unit warms up, when effective neutralization of toxic impurities becomes possible without the participation of ozone. …”
Get full text

Evolution Characteristics of Microbial Diversity During the Treatment of Black-odor Water by Carbon Fiber Bio-contact Oxidation by ZHANG Min, LIU Fengru, YIN Juan, LI Hongju, XU Yang, ZHANG Yang

“…In order to investigate the influence of the growth environment on the evolution of the structural diversity characteristics of the bacterial community during the treatment of black-odor water by carbon fiber bio-contact oxidation,this paper studies the characteristics of bacterial community on inoculated sludge,in-equipment activated sludge and carbon fiber membrane by high-throughput sequencing techniques.The results show that with the progress of biofilm culturing,the microbial species of activated sludge in the equipment gradually decreased,the diversity of bacterial community structure increased compared with inoculated sludge.The difference in bacterial community structure between the carbon fiber membrane D sample and E sample at stable phase was small.The analysis results of dominant bacterial flora show that there were 20 phylum found in the samples.The dominant microbial populations were Proteobacteria,Pachyphyta,Actinomycetes and Bacteroides with their relative abundance of about 75%～95%.At the class level,more than 20 classes were found in the samples,the dominant microbial populations were Alphaproteobacteria,Betaproteobacteria,Deltaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria.The Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria on activated sludge and carbon fiber in the equipment were higher than those in the inoculated sludge,and the clostridia was lower than that in the inoculated sludge,indicating that the bacterial community structure had undergone significant changes after inoculated biofilm culturing with activated sludge.…”
Get full text

Influence of seed moisture content and storage period on germination and biochemical indices: Lallemantia iberica and Lallemantia royleana by Saeideh Maleki Farahani, Alireza Rezazadeh, Arezoo Paravar

“…During storage, most significant deterioration was observed in L. iberica seeds showing lower germination percentage, protein content, catalase and ascorbate peroxidase enzyme activities. …”
Get full text

Dynamic Rendezvous Based Routing Algorithm on Sparse Opportunistic Network Environment by Jiradett Kerdsri, Komwut Wipusitwarakun

“…The results from extensive simulations show that our routing algorithm can achieve higher delivery ratio and utilize lower energy consumption than traditional opportunistic routing algorithms especially in sparse network environment.…”
Get full text

Correct order on some certain weighted representation functions by Chen, Shi-Qiang, Ding, Yuchen, Lü, Xiaodong, Zhang, Yuhan

“…. \] In this note, we further improve the lower bound on $r_{1,k}(A,n)$ by showing that \[ \liminf _{n\,\rightarrow \,\infty }\frac{r_{1,k}(A,n)}{n}>0. \] Our bound reflects the correct order of magnitude of the representation function $r_{1,k}(A,n)$ under the above restrictions due to the trivial fact that $r_{1,k}(A,n)\le n/k…”
Get full text

Effect of Fiber Content and Water Absorption Behaviour on the Mechanical Properties of Screw Pine Fiber-reinforced Vinyl Ester Composites by Venkatarajan SUBBARAYALU, Subbu CHINNARAMAN, Athijayamani AYYANAR, Rajamuneeswaran SUBBAIYARAJA

“…Mechanical properties were drastically lowered in wet conditions compared to dry conditions. …”
Get full text

Pollen, Physicochemical, and Mineral Analysis of Croatian Acacia Honey Samples: Applicability for Identification of Botanical and Geographical Origin by Natalija Uršulin-Trstenjak, Dinko Puntarić, Davor Levanić, Vlatka Gvozdić, Željka Pavlek, Ada Puntarić, Eda Puntarić, Ida Puntarić, Domagoj Vidosavljević, Dario Lasić, Marina Vidosavljević

“…The Istria samples are richer in reducing sugars, free acids, diastase, higher conductivity, higher content of the acacia pollen grains, and lower concentrations of most metals. Honey from Northwest Croatia and Istria shares the high concentration of Al in honey.…”
Get full text

Behavior of Reinforced Composite Foamed-Normal Concrete Beams by Angham Nassar Jaffal, Ameer A. Hilal, Akram S. Mahmoud

“…The ductility of foamed concrete beams with balanced reinforcement and under reinforcing was lower than that of normal concrete. In the case of the over-reinforcement beams, the ductility of foamed concrete beam increased by about 19.5% compared to that of normal reinforced concrete. …”
Get full text